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Playing Now Popup skin "Play"

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marko:
Note: For a trouble-free experience with this skin, you must be using MC 33.0.52 or higher


Play
This skin has no dynamic components at all. The popup will look this way at all times, regardless of the current standard view skin. It uses the MC logo with additional visual feedback on the previous, current and next tracks, along with access to the playlist and volume controls, as well as buttons to minimise or maximise the main MC interface.


Play has been produced on a screen using a 1920 x 1200 resolution @ 100% on Windows 10 Pro. Feedback from users on other platforms and/or resolutions, good or bad, is especially appreciated.

For the curious, the initial release and testing thread can be found here.

The attached archive contains an mjp file. Extract and double click this mjp file. MC will automatically download and install the skin.

Thank you, and enjoy :)

Update 13/10/2024:
Added "Pressed" state images for the volume up/down, and minimize/maximize buttons.

Update 20/10/2024:
The "Mute" button now updates to correctly reflect the muted or unmuted state of the volume.
Added some additional info to the tracks shown when clicking the playlist button.

Update 26/01/2025:
Added Mac and Linux specific font face (Ariel) plus font sizes in all text items. Windows uses Segoe UI.
Made the track details text blue.
Added some (hopefully) invisible background to the playlist, minimise and maximise buttons which should make them easier to target with the mouse.

marko:
Update 13/10/2024:
Added "Pressed" state images for the volume up/down, and minimize/maximize buttons.
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Font sizes should be fixed from MC33.0.30 for Mac. This returns a little more control over the presentation of the popup to the skin creator, and also means that this should now present correctly for Mac users.
Have any Linux users tried these skins? Are they presenting as shown in the example in the first post?

Files on the server have been updated. Double click your mjp file to get the latest version of the skin.

-marko

marko:
Update 20/10/2024:
The "Mute" button now updates to correctly reflect the muted or unmuted state of the volume.
Added some additional info to the tracks shown when clicking the playlist button.
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Files on the server have been updated. Double click your mjp file to get the latest version of the skin.

-marko

cncb:
Here is the skin with custom Mac values.  I have included a screenshot to see what it looks like in case you still want tweaks.

marko:
Thanks for that, I know time is precious.

That looks pretty good, right? :)

One thing that caught my eye was, that the three 'stats' lines are being truncated. I also wondered what the Helvetica font may look like on Windows, so modded the mod, and also got the truncation. I kicked the font size down from 12 to 11 and that took care of it here. Does going down one size work on the Mac? ie., all there and legible?

Odd thing... when I moved the size down, "7's" display smaller than everything else. Any idea why?


If going down a size works on the Mac, I can make the required edits here, and if not, I could make the popup a few pixels wider, and/or add a replicating tooltip.

-marko

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